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Beaverton school notes: Tiger moms or cool moms, music instrument donations, more

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Beaverton High School band students Jeremy Jacobs, left, and Celena Fairman, right, display some of the school's unplayable instruments. Beaverton Band Together is seeking donations of clarinets, trumpets, trombones and other instruments that can be donated to students whose families cannot afford instruments for band classes.
(Wendy Owen/Beaverton Leader)

Family Resource Center closes: The Beaverton School District Family Resource Center will close on June 10 because of a loss of funding.The center, which has served families for 18 years, will continue to offer clothing and supplies through the Clothes Closet and Shoe Box, but other services, such as help signing up for food stamps or medical services, will end.

Math pays off: Jesuit High student and math whiz Ashwin Sah was invited to attend the 2014 White House Science Fair, hosted by President Obama, on May 27 because of his math abilities. In recognition of his achievements in the MATHCOUNTS Competition Series, Sah attended the event as an honored guest. The fair celebrated the student winners of a broad range of science, technology, engineering and math competitions from across the United States. Sah, who won second place in the Countdown Round at the 2013 Raytheon MATHCOUNTS National Competition, was one of the students representing MATHCOUNTS at the event.

Youth awards: Beaverton city leaders celebrated some of the city's artists, supporting organizations and youth volunteers with awards, scholarships and a yearly update on Tuesday, June 3.

Tiger moms: Social science has weighed in on the "tiger mom" debate, and it looks like everyone is right: Both overprotective and laid-back mothers can raise successful children. Three years after Yale law professor Amy Chua's controversial article, "Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior," in the Wall Street Journal, Stanford researchers Alyssa Fu and Hazel Markus have published a study examining the effectiveness of the strict, high-pressure parenting Chua advocates and the more permissive style common in European-American culture. Atlantic Monthly